Acknowledgements

We dedicate this report to Caroline, Isam, Madison, Malinda, George Wall and George Frank Wall as early contributors to this university whose names should be uplifted along with so many others.

This project was funded by Bass Connections and supported by the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Duke Human Rights Center @ the Franklin Humanities Institute the FHI’s Story Lab, led by Dr. Eileen Chow and Dr. Carlos Rojas, and the Pauli Murray Project, under the direction of Barbara Lau. This team was led by Robin Kirk.

We received crucial support from the Department of Cultural Anthropology, including Dr. Irene Silverblatt, and Dr. Alison Adcock, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Fundamental to the success of our students was the devotion of Matthew Sebastian, a Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Anthropology, who worked with students both semesters to understand memory studies, map the campus and assemble the Story Back. Sebastian also contributed invaluable text and comments to the final report. Also key to our success was the support of Tim Stallman, a cartographer, who taught students how to map sites, digitize data and develop a virtual tour. Hannah Jacobs, the Digital Humanities Specialist for the Wired! Lab for digital art history & visual culture, also gave important guidance as we developed the virtual tour and started the web site. Sarah Schroth and Lee Nisbet from the Nasher Art Museum helped obtain permission to use images of Odili Donald Odita's marvelous mural for the cover, and we are grateful to them as well as the artist and his representative, the Jack Shainman Gallery. We are furthermore deeply grateful to Rebekah Miel, of Miel Design Studio, for her brilliant work in designing our report for publishing.

Through many twists and turns, the staff of the Duke University Archives – in particular director Valerie Gillispie and assistant director Amy McDonald – were uniformly patient, helpful, perceptive, knowledgeable and supportive. Their work made this report possible and their ingenuity and creativity with new projects like Duke History Revisited gave us all hope that the central recommendation of this report, that Duke make the engagement with the past a permanent part of its educational mission, will flourish. The University Archives also gave financial support to our 2016-2017 speaker series, “Dangerous Memories: Conversations around the Past, Social Justice and Constructing University Memory,” which greatly enriched our understanding of the complexities of this issue. We would like to acknowledge our three speakers – Brenda Allen, Tina Lu and Jennifer Scott – for sharing their experiences, best practices and challenges with us.

The text of this report was much improved by timely comments from Drs. William Chafe and Wesley Hogan, among others.

​Finally and most importantly, thanks go to the students who invested not only class time, but countless hours outside class so that this project could succeed: Hadeel Abdelhy, Madeline Cochrane, Natalia Espinosa, Catherine Farmer, Mary Aline Fertin, Mumbi Kanyogo, Christine Kinyua, Jair Oballe, Elle Winfield and Helen Yu. Special thanks go to Helen Yu, who spent an additional semester helping to draft and refine the text, complete the web site Natalia began, ensure a diversity of input on drafts and revise and refine our digitized data.